''The Gray House'' (Russian: «Дом, в котором...», literally: ''The House, In Which...'') is the first novel of
Armenian writer
Mariam Petrosyan
Mariam Petrosyan ( hy, Մարիամ Պետրոսյան, born 10 August 1969) is an Armenian painter, cartoonist and Russian-language novelist. She is most well known as the author of the award-winning novel '' The Gray House'' (2009), translated ...
. Written in
Russian, it tells a story of a boarding school for
disabled children and was published in Russian in 2009, becoming a bestseller. The novel was nominated for the
Russian Booker Prize in 2010 and received several awards and nominations, among them was the 2009 Russian Prize for the best book in Russian by an author living abroad.
English version
The worldwide English edition of ''The Gray House'' came out on 25 April 2017, from
AmazonCrossing; it made the shortlist for the 2018 Read Russia Prize.
Excerpts from the novel (in English translation by
Andrew Bromfield
Andrew Bromfield is a British editor and translator of Russian works. He is a founding editor of the Russian literature journal ''Glas'', and has translated into English works by Boris Akunin, Vladimir Voinovich, Irina Denezhkina, Victor Pelevin, ...
) were narrated by
Stephen Fry in the film ''Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin''.
Translations
The book has been also translated into a number of language including (in chronological order):
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Italian as ''La casa del tempo sospeso'' (2011)
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Hungarian as ''Abban a házban'' (2012)
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Polish as ''Dom, w którym...'' (2013)
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Latvian as ''Nams, kurā'' (2013)
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Spanish as ''La casa de los otros'' (2015)
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French
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** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
as ''La Maison dans laquelle'' (2016)
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Czech as ''Dům, ve kterém'' (2016)
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Macedonian
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as ''Домот во кој...'' (2016)
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Bulgarian as ''Домът, в който...'' (2018)
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Ukrainian as ''Будинок, в якому...'' (2019)
The selling right for translations are announced on the book's page at Petrosyan's literary agency.
The House That...
' at Elkost site.
References
2009 speculative fiction novels
2009 Russian novels
Magic realism novels
Debut speculative fiction novels
Armenian novels
2009 debut novels
Russian counterculture of the 1990s
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